This is a real store sign! Unfortunately, it's sits on what is now an antique store on Queen West, next to Local Kitchen where I had dinner tonight.
Honestly, the concept of an "ice cream brick" store named "ACME DeLuxe" seems too good to be true – it's right out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon... :-)
I accidently stumbled across a really cool blog called Lost Toronto on the weekend that compares present day Toronto architecture to what existed in the late 1800s – early 1900s. I haven't shown any of the "afters" here in my post as I wanted to simply recreate my morning commute to work starting from Parkdale to Yonge Street and beyond with "befores". Have a look at the site – if you love this sort of thing, you will get lost in it for hours.
Looking east on Queen towards the Dufferin underpass
The Gladstone looking east
North side of Queen just east of the Gladstone, 1931
Queen & Lisgar
Queen West just east of Ossington c1919 – north side. Black Dog Video is here now.
Trinity College, 1913. The buildings, all except for St. Hilda's, were demolished in 1956.
Queen & Manning
Queen & Bathurst, 1935
Queen & Bathurst (There's a Starbucks on that corner now)
South east corner of Queen & Bathurst where the Big Bop was.
Queen & Portland, 1958 – the Epicure Cafe is here now.
Queen & Spadina, 1910 - south east corner
Queen & Spadina – before the streetcar median was here, there were public bathrooms
North side of Queen east of Spadina – Le Chateau, the Rivoli and David's Tea are here now
Queen and Peter looking east
Looking south onto Peter from the north side of Queen. You can see "Peter Pan Lunch" to the left, which is still there today.
To the right under that hoarding, you can now find a GAP.
The CityTV building, which was originally constructed for the Methodist Church of Canada in 1913, was bought by CHUM in 1985.
Looking north on Beverly from Queen
University Ave looking south
University Ave looking north towards the Canada Life building.
Bay & Adelaide
Queen & Yonge
Yonge & Shuter – to the right is Eaton's
The first Loblaws in 1919
Yonge & Dundas 1922
Yonge & Dundas
Yonge & Dundas 1952
Toronto Street & Adelaide
Dundas & Victoria Street 1923. That building is still there as "Hakim Optical".
This charming young butcher was photographed in front of his shop at Bloor & Brunswick in 1921.
Here's the link again: Lost Toronto
Enjoy!
It's probably pretty obvious by now that I like "things" and that I collect many different types of them.
One that I have a particular fondness for are vintage French steel cut purses. Something about the combination of sparkle, pattern design, handmade craftsmanship and the sheer heaviness of them, make them irresistible to me.
The above are some recent new additions to my ever growing collection.
Found here.
I'm a Toronto based designer that enjoys blogging about whatever intrigues me
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